Dot Net Architect - Big4

LA leading Big 4 Consulting is hiring for .Net Architect for their location at Hyderabad.

Designation : .Net Architect

Experience : 10-12 years

Location : Hyderabad

Looking for : Immediate Joinees or who can Join Max in 45 Days.

Responsibilities :

- Providing technical and architectural leadership for Microsoft .NET web applications.

- Defining Infrastructure and capacity planning for enterprise mobility platforms.

- Creating project and application architecture deliverables that are consistent with architecture principles, standards, methodologies, and best practices.

- Leading technical design sessions with the development teams, including the creation of class models, sequence diagrams, component models, etc., and detailed design specifications to ensuring that architecture standards are followed.

- Responsible for defining technical evaluation criteria for product and technology selection and determining technical approaches to ensure all architectural solutions result in a coherent systems design.

- Providing expert knowledge of mobile application architecture to business and technology teams and facilitate the collaborative development of the technology strategy, technology standards, roadmaps, and practices.

- Providing support / guidance to the development teams during the analysis, development, and testing processes.

- Applied research and development, prototyping, and vendor evaluations

- Advising and consulting Deloitte Application Studio leadership on technology costs, benefits, and implementation requirements.

- Working with business clients and product owners to review business drivers, needs, and strategies to anticipate future business / technology needs.

- Improving processes to ensure alignment between the business strategies and application technology roadmap.

- Reviewing and approving 3rd party and integration solution architecture based on established enterprise application strategy.

- Communicating implications of architectural decisions, issues and plans to business and IT Leadership.

- Defining and validating non-functional (technical) requirements, and establishing traceability between requirements and application architecture/design.

- Providing input to the development of project initiation documents including objectives, scope, approach, estimates, and deliverables, when needed.

- Working closely with Performance Engineering and our Web/Infrastructure Technology teams on defining the deployment architecture.

- Participating, and technically leading when needed, production troubleshooting and 'War Room' Activities.

- Staying abreast of changes in vendor landscape, and providing guidance around Deloitte Application Studio's long term vendor strategy towards mobile application development.

- Instilling a culture of execution, operational excellence, and accountability.

- Seeking and capitalizing on the opportunities to improve productivity, improving time-to-market, improving solutions quality, and improving cost effectiveness.

- Anticipating barriers to change and creating opportunities to remove them.

- Creating a culture that is based on knowledge sharing and learning from best practices.

- Exhibiting high level of professional flexibility and volunteering innovation and new ideas.

- Mentoring technical leads and developers

Experience with the following Technologies/Methodologies required :

- Strong knowledge and understanding of .NET Framework & SharePoint development techniques

- Strong knowledge of web-based technologies; HTTP, AJAX, HTML5, JavaScript/jQuery and CSS3

- Microsoft .Net, WCF, REST Webservice and complementary business layer and front-end technologies.

- Microsoft SQL Server and other most common back-end Microsoft technologies.

- Expertise on Object Oriented Analysis & Design.

- Comfort, knowledge and usage experience of design pattern.

- .NET C# and Visual Studio experience, JQuery & AJAX development technologies

- SharePoint development experience for content management, portal and applications.

- Well versed in UML with comfort of diagraming in at least one tool - Visio, Enterprise Architect, Visual Paradigm, Modelio etc.

Experience with the following Technologies/Methodologies preferred :

- Mobile development technologies

- Agile development environment especially SCRUM using Urban Turtle.

- Messaging architectures SOAP and REST with JSON text encoding.

- GPS, location based services and other device hardware interactions

- Usage of automated build and/or unit testing and integration systems (Jenkins, TeamCity, etc.)

Other skills Preferred :

- Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and reasoning skills to earn support of business leaders, technology leaders, colleagues, and vendor representatives.

- Capable of building sustainable relationships with colleagues and key individuals.

- Creativity and ability to think outside-the-box while defining sound and practical solutions.

- Desire to take the initiative, moving projects/ideas forward with clarity.

- Adept negotiation skills in high-pressure situations.

- Leadership skills to indirectly lead cross-functional teams towards common solutions.

Qualifications :

- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, or related discipline. While an advanced degree is preferred, the value is placed on the extent of the relevant experience and accomplishments

- 5+ hands-on experience in Object-Oriented Design (OOD), Unified Modeling Language (UML), stateless distributed architectures, and designing for scalability and performance, especially within, .Net, HTML5/CSS3, and WCF technologies.

- Clear understanding of event-driven and delegate-based design paradigms.

- Knowledge of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), its principles, and patterns at enterprise level.

- Experience in data modeling techniques and knowledge and applicability of various normal forms.

- Experience and knowledge of multi-tier and cross-platform architectures driven towards mobility.

- Experience in developing of IT architecture plans and software development methodologies.

Chandra Sekhar